XO power management

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 08:54 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:38 -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> > So I signed up for the XO power management team
> > (dyoung at fedoraproject.org). First thing I noticed is that none of the
> > pm-utils seem to do much unless HAL reports a system.chassis.type,
> > which the XO does not:
> 
> The bigger problem is that the OLPC power management support isn't in
> the upstream kernel.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=465284 is already
> filed for tracking that
> 
> And FWIW, we're almost certainly not being very aggressive about power
> management related things in Fedora 10.  Partially because the bits
> aren't upstream, partially because we're exercising some parts of the
> kernel that are definitely not "happy"[1]
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> [1] eg, suspend/resume with the rootfs on sdhci is all but certain to
> have its share of problems

I think the word you're looking for is 'will crash'

and suspend to disk will scribble all over the drive.

-sv